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200 years of Charleston cooking

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Description: Traditional South Carolina recipes with anecdotes of Charleston's social life and conditions. Mentions the St. Cecelia Society, the coastal islands, the death of Aaron Burr's daughter, Ralph Bennett (the honey man), William Deas (the Rhett's butler), Dr. E.C. Adams, Mme. de Genlis, Leize Dawson owner of Villa Margherita, and includes several references African American street vendors and their wares and songs. Recipes are accompanied by many photographs of people and architectural details of the Charleston area.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [1934]
Call number: 641189
Creator: Rhett, Blanche Salley(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: 20 cm
Associated people: Gay, Lettie, (1901-); Woodward, Helen, (1882-1960)

200 years of Charleston cooking

Rare Books

Traditional South Carolina recipes with anecdotes of Charleston's social life and conditions. Mentions the St. Cecelia Society, the coastal islands, the death of Aaron Burr's daughter, Ralph Bennett (the honey man), William Deas (the Rhett's butler), Dr. E.C. Adams, Mme. de Genlis, Leize Dawson owner of Villa Margherita, and includes several references African American street vendors and their wares and songs.

641176

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Hoppin' John's Lowcountry cooking : recipes and ruminations from Charleston & the Carolina coastal plain

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Recipes of the Lowcountry cuisine gathered from the past 300 years in South Carolina.

641223

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Dainty cooking

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"This little work brings together in simple and convenient form a few practical recipes for dainty cooking which have been formulated, tested and approved in the laboratories of the Domestic Science Department of Throop Polytechnic Institute, many of these recipes being now in constant use in some of the best homes in Southern California."--Page [7].

641425

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Russian cooking

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Discusses the cuisines of Russia and provides a variety of recipes characteristic of the diverse regions of that country.

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Aaron Burr and Louis Le Guen correspondence

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A collection of letters and legal documents of Aaron Burr, Louis Le Guen, and Thomas Ludlow Ogden, chiefly regarding the loan granted by Le Guen to Burr in 1799 and settling of accounts from 1805 to 1820. Also included are a few items pertaining to the Le Guen vs. Gouverneur and Kemble court case, including Burr's letter to Alexander Hamilton (November 15, 1803), and another case handled by Burr on Le Guen's behalf. Other correspondents include Cadwallader R. Colden, Charles Leggett, and Le Guen's wife, Mary Hylton Le Guen.

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